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• Most Recent Post: Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 3:20 p.m.
Updated April 24th, 2003
----A FEW FACTS----
Name:
Vestard J. Shimkus
Born:
August 21st, 1984, Latvia
Present Location:
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Occupation:
A young pianist and composer
Achievements:
Winner of several International Piano Competitions and one Composers Competition
Why I like filmmusic:
It contains the essentially best things of all the genres of music in quite an illustrative and hyper-impressively emotional "sauce"
Hobbies:
swimming, running, eating
Languages I'm able to speak in:
English, Russian, Latvian. I've also studied German for SEVEN years but everything I know is "keine Ahnung" and that's it.
Compoer I Adore:
James Horner
Three Composers I'm Totally Obsessed With:
James Newton Howard
Hans Zimmer
Elliot Goldenthal
Other Composers I Love Very Very Much:
Alan Silvestri
Howard Shore
John Debney
Klaus Badelt
John Frizzell
John Powell
Randy Edelman
Craig Armstrong
Trevor Jones
Harry Gregson-Williams
My Five Most Favorite Scores:
The Lord of the Rings (Shore)
Gladiator (Zimmer)
Final Fantasy: Spirits Within (Goldenthal)
Braveheart (Horner)
The Four Feathers (Horner)
Composer because of whom I became such a filmmusic maniac:
Hans Zimmer
Composer I hate:
John Williams.
Because I deem his music is, IMHO, too entertainingly idle. It's beautifully illustrative but it leaves me cold, somehow. I, of course, appreciate what he has composed but I've never ENJOYED his music.
Other Composers I don't like:
Ennio Morricone
Joel McNeely
Mark Mancina
Elmer Bernstein
Rachel Portman
My Five Most Favorite Films:
Braveheart
Gladiator
Romeo + Juliet
The Sixth Sense
Legends of the Fall
My Most Favorite Director:
M.Night Shyamalan
My Five Most Favorite Classical Composers:
Peter Tchaikovsky
Dmitri Shostakovich
Sergei Rachmaninov
Maurice Ravel
Ralph Vaughan Williams
----MY COLLECTION OF SCORES----
This will be an untraditional list because, unfortunately, I don't OWN a great amount of filmscore CDs (because I'm quite new to the filmmusic. I started to listen to it and collect the filmscore CDs only a couple of years ago). There're much more scores I've HEARD. And there're also a plenty of scores I don't really own but they're owned by some of my friends, so, it's still possible to get from me some CD-R copies of all the scores listed below, if somebody's interested in a trade.
At first, I'll list the scores I own at the moment:
CRAIG ARMSTRONG
Moulin Rouge (a special compilation of the complete score, including some tracks downloaded from DVD)****
ANGELO BADALAMENTI
Mulholland Drive***
The City of Lost Children***
KLAUS BADELT
K-19.The Widowmaker**
The Time Machine*****
JOHN DEBNEY
Dragonfly*****
Cutthroat Island*****
TAN DUN
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon****
JOHN FRIZZELL
Gods and Generals**
Alien: Ressurrection*****
ELLIOT GOLDENTHAL
Frida***
Final Fantasy: Spirits Within*****
Heat*****
Interview With the Vampire*****
Alien 3****
JERRY GOLDSMITH
Basic Instinct***
JAMES HORNER
The Four Feathers*****
Windtalkers****
A Beautiful Mind****
The Perfect Storm****
Deep Impact****
Titanic*****
Ransom***
Braveheart*****
Clear and Present Danger****
Legends of the Fall*****
Apollo 13****
Willow*****
Aliens*****
Brainstorm****
JAMES NEWTON HOWARD
Signs*****
Unbreakable****
Devil's Advocate*****
Outbreak (complete)****
Waterworld*****
TREVOR JONES
From Hell*****
The Last of the Mochicans*****
WOJCIECH KILAR
Drakula*****
THOMAS NEWMAN
Road to Perdition*****
MICAEL NYMAN
The Piano***
JOHN POWELL
Chicken Run*****
TREVOR RABIN
Armageddon****
VESTARD SHIMKUS
My Music (demo CD)
HOWARD SHORE
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers*****
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring*****
Dogma****
Looking for Richard****
ALAN SILVESTRI
The Mummy Returns (2 CDs, complete)*****
The Mummy Returns (the regular OST)****
PETER SIMONS
For Your Consideration (demo CD)
VANGELIS
Blade Runner*
HANS ZIMMER
Tears of the Sun****
Hannibal****
Wings of a Film (2CDs, the complete concert)****
Pearl Harbor***
More Music From Gladiator***
Gladiator*****
Gladiator 2CD N8 edition***
Mission Impossible 2****
The Thin Red Line****
Prince of Egypt****
The Rock****
The Peacemaker*****
Crimson Tide*****
And here are the scores I've heard and almost own (it's possible to get them from me. I won't rate some of them here, though):
JAMES HORNER
Grinch
DON DAVIS
Matrix
Jurassic Park 3
MICHAEL KAMEN
Highlander***
X-men*
JOHN WILLIAMS
Attack of the Clones***
Return of the Jedi (2CD edition)***
A New Hope (2CD edition)***
The Empire Strikes Back***
The Phantom Menace***
Harry Poter and the Sorcerers Stone**
Home Alone**
Sabrina**
Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom**
Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade**
Schindler's List**
A.I. Artifical Intelligence**
ANGELO BADALAMENTI
Lost Highway**
JOHN POWELL
Face Off****
DANNY ELFMAN
Sleepy Hollow****
Nightmare Before Christmas
Planet of the Apes**
Batman***
Men in Black 2
Mission: Impossible
Edward Scissorhands
Beetlejiuce
DAVID ARNOLD
The World is Not Enough
Tomorrow Never Dies
BRAD FIEDEL
True lies
Best of Schwarzenegger, Vol.1
Best of Schwarzenegger, Vol.2
PAUL OAKENFOLD
Swordfish
ERIC SERRA
Leon the Professional
Joanne of Arc
The Fifth Element
Nikita
Goldeneye
PAUL BUCKMASTER
Twelve Monkeys
HANS ZIMMER
True Romance*
The Lion King****
Rain Man*
CHRISTOPHER YOUNG
Entrapment
ELLIOT GOLDENTHAL
Batman Forever
TREVOR RABIN
6th Day
CARTER BURWELL
The General's Daughter
BASIL POLEDAURIS
Conan the Barbarian**
THOMAS NEWMAN
American Beauty
MARK MANCINA
Tarzan*
BURKHARD DALLWITZ
The Truman Show
BERNARD HERRMANN
Cape Fear
HARRY CONNICK
When Harry Meets Sally
NINO ROTA
Godfather**
JEFF RONA
The White Squall***
So, that's all. If somebody's interested to get something from all this stuff, please, let me know. 
And finally - my sweet-white-blossed-botthole-like syrupy picture taken last summer to make you all vomit 
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